Warning — San Francisco Chronicle alert! The paper’s agenda of multicultural ethnic power is on full view, particularly Chinese, shown by its positive treatment Rose Pak, a familiar political hack whose self-appointed job is to push the interests of her tribe.

In a city that is one-third Asian, the majority Chinese Americans, there are few prominent politicians of Chinese descent.

Next year, the Chinese American population of San Francisco will mark the 160th anniversary of its presence in the city. Gone are the exclusionary laws that held the populace in check, the policies that curtailed Chinese immigration and citizenship. Gone is the official discrimination that kept many in the ghetto.

Yet such progress has not translated into political power. No Chinese American has held the top office of mayor, and except for a few years in the late 1990s, they have never been proportionately represented in the city’s top political body, the Board of Supervisors.

“I was dying to be working on the election of a Chinese American mayor,” said Rose Pak, the Chinatown wheeler-dealer who has spent decades grooming and supporting candidates for office. “But now I … wonder if I’ll see it.”
[Asian Americans flex political muscle in wider Bay Area, San Francisco Chronicle, December 2, 2007]

No Chinese mayor in San Francisco? Asian households have higher average incomes than Americans, yet the professional complainers like Pak are never satisfied.

For more southerly diversity news, see the Orange County Register’s positive spin on demographic revolution, Where cultures collide (November 30).

[University Park Elementary], nestled just 2 miles from UC Irvine, is one of five in Irvine Unified that offers magnet classes for new arrivals. The area is also home to many recent immigrants studying at the university or living in large apartment communities that are among the area’s more affordable.

The result: 1 in 3 pupils is an English learner, and 36 languages are spoken at the school, from South Africa’s Afrikaans to Mandarin Chinese to Pakistan’s Urdu.

The pupils have one year of intensive English language instruction in Lui’s class before being placed in mainstream classes. The immersion is immediate and effective.

There is no mention of the financial cost to taxpayers of all this diversity.

Also, foreigners continue to prefer the company of their own kind rather than joining the American national community.

Bing-Feng Wang of Taiwan chose to study computer science at UC Irvine because he liked the international flavor, and was comforted by the large Chinese population. He appreciates the many ethnic supermarkets and restaurants, while his two kids enjoy the proximity to Disneyland and Sea World.

Can you say “balkanization”? It’s no problema to the MSM on the Left Coast.

Steve Sailer reviewed Understanding Human Historyin August, and Michael H. Hart has made it available as a PDF download here. Of course, if you don’t like reading it ion your computer, you can buy it from Amazon.com.. Steve Sailer said that Hart’s book

… brings new clarity to the vast sweep of human history.

I predict, therefore, that it will make only a tiny fraction as much money as Guns, Germs, and Steel.

But in the long run, it will likely matter more

Approximately a week ago, I pointed out that some House Democrats have become bluntly critical, in public, about immigration – at least the illegal variety. Apparently a recent trip to witness the border chaos near El Paso and Tucson showed several of them the light.

Subsequently, one of those Democrats, Congressman Zack Space of Ohio, actually coined a useful word in an op-ed he had published in one of his district’s newspapers [Illegal border crossing, smuggling an everyday event, Chillicothe Gazette, November 26, 2007]. Wrote Space:

“All immigration reform must start with securing our borders. That is a no-brainer. We need to construct barriers, invest in new technology, and hire more Border Patrol agents to physically prevent people from entering the country illegally.

“Secondly, we must increase enforcement and punishment for employers who hire undocumented workers. If there are no jobs to be had, there will be no reason to come here.

“And finally, we must make America the land of inopportunity for illegal immigrants by enforcing the laws we have on the books preventing them from receiving government assistance. If you have not paid into the system, you should not be able to take from it.”

“Inopportunity“!! It doesn’t just trip off the tongue, but it’s both apt and memorable.

Elsewhere in his op-ed, Space sounds like a congressman actually interested in looking out for the working-class constituencies one historically associates with Democrats.:

“I always have been a strong supporter of protecting American jobs - especially from people who come here illegally to take those jobs.

“It is obvious to anyone who lives and works in rural Ohio we have an illegal immigration crisis. There are Americans who go without work, and there are illegal immigrants who receive benefits provided by a system that they do not pay into. I always have believed this was wrong.”

Consistent with these views, Space is a co-sponsor of the highly bipartisan S.A.V.E. Act (Secure America with Verification Enforcement [H.R. 4088]), introduced in the House on November 6, 2007 by Congressman Heath Shuler (D – NC). At this writing, 45 House Democrats and 67 House Republicans are cosponsoring the bill.

Reflecting upon his border eye-opener, Space concluded his op-ed:

“We still have a long way to go before we begin to stem the tide of illegal immigration, and I will take what I have learned from my border mission back to Washington to push for much stronger enforcement through measures such as the SAVE Act.

“We simply cannot afford to wait any longer.”